Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS): The Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) Project is a network of selected clinical sites that will conduct surveillance for infectious disease along the border region. BIDS is designed, implemented and conducted by public health agencies on both sides of the U.S. border.

Healthy Gente: Healthy Gente outlines a health promotion and disease prevention agenda through the year 2010 for the U.S. communities that border Mexico. This initiative draws on the national health objectives defined in Healthy People 2010, identifying 25 of the most important objectives for the distinct needs and concerns of the border.

U.S. Mexico Border Health Diabetes Project: The U.S.- Mexico Border Diabetes Project is a five year collaborative team effort attempting to determine prevalence of diabetes along the U.S.-Mexico border, developing binational prevention and control programs for diabetes, and corresponding to the needs of the border population.

Binational Tuberculosis Health Card: The development and implementation of a binational tuberculosis (TB) card expected to ensure coordinated referral of patients between both health systems, continuity of care and completion of therapy of TB patients migrating between Mexico and the United States is currently underway. Watch for future information.